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When a wildfire tears through a landscape, most life retreats or disappears. Plants burn. Animals flee. The soil itself is ...

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If you imagine the earliest animals on Earth, you might picture something simple but sturdy. Maybe a sponge-like creature ...

DNA, though tightly packed in the nucleus, is constantly threatened by damage from metabolism and external stressors. One particularly severe form of DNA damage is the so-called DNA–protein crosslinks ...

Most of us think about weight in terms of clothes, mirrors, or maybe blood sugar and cholesterol. But very few of us connect ...

Weak gravitational lensing, the bending of light from distant galaxies by intervening mass, remains one of the most direct ...

Stress can feel like background noise for many autistic adults. Not loud enough to be obvious at first. But always there. The ...

The Webb telescope promises to push the boundaries of the observable universe, inching ever closer to the cosmic dawn. This ...

For the Moon itself, the story is different. The Moon has far less water than Earth, but for such a dry world it’s important. Most of it lies frozen in dark polar craters, and these icy spots could ...

For a long time, scientists thought there was a hard limit to hopping. Go beyond a certain body weight, the logic went, and ...

A new study from Iran provides clear scientific evidence for that feeling. It shows that social isolation, loneliness, and repetitive negative thinking work together to make emotional distress much ...